Thurburns

as if the record was written in the more comprehensive pages of
our country's history ? If so, then the lesson has this additional
interest attached to it, that it is derived from the same source
which gave us our flesh and blood ; and can, consequently, be
trusted to speak more to the heart than one derived from
generalities.
The justice of these remarks being conceded, it but remains
for the author to state that he would have declined to face the
criticism of kith and kin, had he not been assured, in the solici-
tude of some relatives to have a historical sketch of the family,
that his labours on their behalf would be met con amove. In
this trust he confides the following pages to their perusal and
consideration.
16, Stanley Crescent, Kensington Park,
London, IQth November, 1864.